a) StarOffice isn't free. You're thinking of OpenOffice. b) Large organisations don't pay list price. This is software, Microsoft will have discounted it down to a point where they can regain the business.
A Chav is roughly the equivalent of the American redneck, in that it's the last cultural group that we're allowed to make fun of (with the possible exception of gypsies and the welsh).
White, lower-than working class (they don't work), benefit scroungers. They are primarly interested in drugs, alcohol, hooded garments and have an intricate knowledge of the benefits system. Their language is a bizarre mixture of estuary-english and hiphop, with a bit of asian patois thrown in 'innit'.
If it's hardware lust, that pleasure only lasts until the first upgrade is 'announced', let alone available. Plus I don't think anyone, anywhere really *needs* an iPod. You want an iPod.:)
Wait until the Intel boxes come along, then buy a dual G5. You'll get a great deal, because you'll be a buyer in a sellers market! There's a sweet-spot for hardware purchases - and It's different for every platform, it's up to you to do some research to find out what is real 'value for money' for what you intend to do with the box.
Two pints of lager, and the Smoking room? - no wait they're pretty crap.
Little Britain is just too hip-gay for me. I mean it's quite funny, but I don't need reminding that there are 'gheys in this village' every 30 seconds.
Killing suspected criminals without trial isn't cool. In fact killing people in general isn't cool. If you think it is, get help.
Are they? I'd say most of those living in Europe at least are unlikely to be armed -- if you're an undercover terrorist, the last thing you want to do is criminalise yourself by keeping a gun.
A) There's no way of proving that they're *not* armed. B) At what point did I say I wanted them shot dead?
I guess I'm saying that facing down the IRA with military action didn't achieve much. Talking to them did.
Actually several covert actions (SAS and others) against the IRA were highly effective. How you measure this effectiveness in the big scheme of things is, of course extremely hard. Did they help lead to an environment where serious talks could begin? Who knows?
As a gun nerd and a former Londoner, the SAS option would be cooler!:)
These jihadist fuckwits are highly likely to be armed and dangerous - and unwilling to be arrested. I would trust the task of bringing them to justice to the SAS, more than I trust SO19 to deal with them.
So, what we, Europeans, really want is for the directive to pass in a form that once and for all prevents this abomination called software patents to be reborn.
Speak for yourself mate. What I want is an end to my countries involvement in a corrupt and self-serving federal institution, where this sort of crap happens in the first place.
I could run Solaris, but when I have a problem, I can't track it down. I can't read the source to see how critical an area the bug is or if there is a way to work around it. I can't ask the author's of the code if they can fix it by e-mailing them directly.
Well, you can with OpenSolaris, but that's not really what it's about (well, maybe a bit).
You see, Solaris or the applications you run on Solaris rarely go wrong in a way that you can't understand with the tools already provided (apptrace, Dtrace, mdb etc.). The interfaces are extremely well defined (the man pages are usually correct!) and major changes in APIs are restricted to major releases. The published interfaces should work as documented. If not, it's a bug and there's a suitable escalation path in place. What possible reason do you, as a developer or sysadmin, have for messing around with kernel code? I didn't mean that to sound rude, but in my mind there's a clear separation of responsibilities between the role of kernel developer and application developer/sysadmin.
The real business benefits of Solaris are reliability, stability, stability and stability - you buy new Sun hardware once every 4-7 years, run their OS and allow them to support it - that's what they do extremely well and that's why people still buy their kit.
I've witnessed a medium sized application run unchanged (unrecompiled!) over 10 years, during which it has transitioned across 5 major releases of Solaris.
Lying about the location needs to be sorted out too.
I'm sick and tired of searching for items in the UK and having to sort through pages and pages of crap from Hong Kong (which seem cheap until you look at the shipping costs).
English beer is usually served at cellar temperature - cellars (anywhere in the UK) are seldom warm, but their certainly not chilled. A good number of pubs don't use hand pumps for their ales (some don't have a cellar at all), but instead rely on taps directly attached to the casks, usually stored behind and above the bar. This beer is of course served at room temperature (as god intended) (not warm, not chilled).
It always annoys me when I see an 'Extra Cold' pump or 'iced' bottles. Mmm.. beer that lacks any meaningful flavour or complexity, served chilled so you won't notice!
Slashdot Mirror
Will they be able to complain about birds being shot out of the sky or going blind?
That'll teach the little bastards not to crap on the mirrors!
a) StarOffice isn't free. You're thinking of OpenOffice.
b) Large organisations don't pay list price. This is software, Microsoft will have discounted it down to a point where they can regain the business.
Much more likely to be one of the real enterprise PC box shifters of that era. Compaq I'd say.
I was posting drunk :)
It does seem that eventually, we will move to one single universal time...
We have a universal time system. Which planet are you living on?
A Chav is roughly the equivalent of the American redneck, in that it's the last cultural group that we're allowed to make fun of (with the possible exception of gypsies and the welsh).
White, lower-than working class (they don't work), benefit scroungers. They are primarly interested in drugs, alcohol, hooded garments and have an intricate knowledge of the benefits system. Their language is a bizarre mixture of estuary-english and hiphop, with a bit of asian patois thrown in 'innit'.
Could oiy 'ave sum feggots an poyse ployse?
Dollar-->Pound-->Euro-->Yen.
That's for catching paedophiles, not terrorists!
Well, 'Slashdot Recolor' and 'Butler' work fine under 0.3.5.
That's all I need.
What's the hurry?
:)
If it's hardware lust, that pleasure only lasts until the first upgrade is 'announced', let alone available. Plus I don't think anyone, anywhere really *needs* an iPod. You want an iPod.
Wait until the Intel boxes come along, then buy a dual G5. You'll get a great deal, because you'll be a buyer in a sellers market! There's a sweet-spot for hardware purchases - and It's different for every platform, it's up to you to do some research to find out what is real 'value for money' for what you intend to do with the box.
I wasted thousands before I realised that.
Two pints of lager, and the Smoking room? - no wait they're pretty crap.
Little Britain is just too hip-gay for me. I mean it's quite funny, but I don't need reminding that there are 'gheys in this village' every 30 seconds.
Wrong.
Look in the Oxford English Dictionary and you'll find 'colonized (also -ised)'.
There's no way of proving that you're not an idiot.
Fucking twat.
Killing suspected criminals without trial isn't cool. In fact killing people in general isn't cool. If you think it is, get help.
Are they? I'd say most of those living in Europe at least are unlikely to be armed -- if you're an undercover terrorist, the last thing you want to do is criminalise yourself by keeping a gun.
A) There's no way of proving that they're *not* armed.
B) At what point did I say I wanted them shot dead?
I guess I'm saying that facing down the IRA with military action didn't achieve much. Talking to them did.
Actually several covert actions (SAS and others) against the IRA were highly effective. How you measure this effectiveness in the big scheme of things is, of course extremely hard. Did they help lead to an environment where serious talks could begin? Who knows?
As a gun nerd and a former Londoner, the SAS option would be cooler! :)
These jihadist fuckwits are highly likely to be armed and dangerous - and unwilling to be arrested. I would trust the task of bringing them to justice to the SAS, more than I trust SO19 to deal with them.
So, what we, Europeans, really want is for the directive to pass in a form that once and for all prevents this abomination called software patents to be reborn.
Speak for yourself mate. What I want is an end to my countries involvement in a corrupt and self-serving federal institution, where this sort of crap happens in the first place.
Aluminium alloyed with copper (and other metals) actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duralumin
Human powered helicopters are cool, but what's hard about making a concrete boat? Mixing the concrete probably...
I could run Solaris, but when I have a problem, I can't track it down. I can't read the source to see how critical an area the bug is or if there is a way to work around it. I can't ask the author's of the code if they can fix it by e-mailing them directly.
Well, you can with OpenSolaris, but that's not really what it's about (well, maybe a bit).
You see, Solaris or the applications you run on Solaris rarely go wrong in a way that you can't understand with the tools already provided (apptrace, Dtrace, mdb etc.). The interfaces are extremely well defined (the man pages are usually correct!) and major changes in APIs are restricted to major releases. The published interfaces should work as documented. If not, it's a bug and there's a suitable escalation path in place. What possible reason do you, as a developer or sysadmin, have for messing around with kernel code? I didn't mean that to sound rude, but in my mind there's a clear separation of responsibilities between the role of kernel developer and application developer/sysadmin.
The real business benefits of Solaris are reliability, stability, stability and stability - you buy new Sun hardware once every 4-7 years, run their OS and allow them to support it - that's what they do extremely well and that's why people still buy their kit.
I've witnessed a medium sized application run unchanged (unrecompiled!) over 10 years, during which it has transitioned across 5 major releases of Solaris.
Lying about the location needs to be sorted out too.
I'm sick and tired of searching for items in the UK and having to sort through pages and pages of crap from Hong Kong (which seem cheap until you look at the shipping costs).
I know. /usr/ucb/bin aside, not BSD derived.
I mean, I wonder if anyone here actually took the Concorde?
Yes. On business.
I've stayed in a suite at the Savoy too!
Oh, those dot-com days...
Banning the deep frying of mars bars in commercial premises would be a good start.
English beer is usually served at cellar temperature - cellars (anywhere in the UK) are seldom warm, but their certainly not chilled. A good number of pubs don't use hand pumps for their ales (some don't have a cellar at all), but instead rely on taps directly attached to the casks, usually stored behind and above the bar. This beer is of course served at room temperature (as god intended) (not warm, not chilled).
It always annoys me when I see an 'Extra Cold' pump or 'iced' bottles. Mmm.. beer that lacks any meaningful flavour or complexity, served chilled so you won't notice!
As for dentists. Try finding an NHS practice.